The latest trick to stop those annoying AI answers is also the most cathartic.
  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    87·
    6 days ago

    Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven’t looked back.

        • Zink@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          5 days ago

          Now that you mention it, DDG’s AI assist button is probably my most used LLM because it’s just there & available without being intrusive.

          Some web searches lend themselves well to a quick generated paragraph.

    • Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      32·
      6 days ago

      Haha that just sounds like a list of gibberish words! I love tech naming when it doesn’t include Copilot or a lowercase i :p

      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        6 days ago

        Yeah, don’t ask tech people to name things. Microsoft has like 500 different things called “Razor.”

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
          30·
          6 days ago

          Their newest app to connect to virtual desktops (that I’m aware of) is named Windows App. Searching for info on that fucking thing was a pain in the ass.

          • DemonVisual@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            It was called Remote Desktop before, but some security problems, and the fact you can connect to a program running on a server (rather than the whole OS interface) … Made them rename it, most of the tech is still the same though and most guides still apply to it.

            Come to think of it, I seem to remember that the connect to an app, rather than desktop functionality was available in Windows Server 2012, so renaming it now is a delayed response at best.

            • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              Yeah replacing the previous app (which was also a shitty name btw) was why I had to look up information about it.

          • Eril@feddit.orgEnglish
            15·
            6 days ago

            Now imagine naming a social media platform after a letter of the alphabet 🙃

          • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            6 days ago

            I don’t remember, was it Microsoft or just the journalists saying

            The windows app let’s you run windows apps on windows

          • mogranja@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            They should hire someone to name things there. The only worse name I can think of would be to drop the “App” and just call it “Windows”.

    • Subverb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Careful. I suggested kagi in another thread and was accused of being a shill.

      Don’t understand how people can pay $7 for a coffee but won’t consider paying $5 or $10 a month for clean search results.

      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        People can call me a shill if they want. I was curious when I first tried Kagi, but sceptical, but now I’m really happy. It’s fun to see new features make it on there, and more than anything I love that I can make the search engine work for me instead of having to faff about trying to phrase stuff in a way where I can coax what I want out of it.

        If I hate a particular website, I’ll just block it and never see it again. It’s so simple. The new “AI generated” tags on images is nice, and I hope we can see something similar for websites at some point too. Maybe flag sites that are known to use LLMs for garbage accumulation. There might already even be a blocklist for that.